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		<title>Mama Mary one, Modern Theologians Zero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All Catholic Filipinos have a devotion to &#8220;Mama  Mary&#8221;. It&#8217;s a cultural thing.
Americans tend to be individualistic in their approch to religion, so tend to parse Bible verses.  But the Philippines, until recently, was still a country of peasants, where religion was taught to children by stories and fiestas.
So Jesus was &#8220;Kuya Jesus&#8221;, older brother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123054</link>
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		<title>Infosys Executive Calls for Revision of ITA 2000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ITA 2000 was amended after several years of hibernation        and the new ITA 2008 has emerged. While we are yet to digest the changes,        there are some persons who are calling for changes in ITA 2000. It is not   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tommy Croslin – Out Of The Slammer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haleigh Cummings ex-stepmoms brother Tommy Croslin is once more out on the streets. The No Bond hold was reduced to a much more manageable $504, and someone apparently had the ability to scrape up the $50 to pay the bond company. Of course one has to wonder where they keep coming up with the Bond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123052</link>
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		<title>Alyssa Bustamante - 15 Year Old Killer Going To Mental Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alyssa Bustamante is only 15 years old. Still a child yet she committed a horrendous crime with reports claiming it was just so she could know what it feels like to kill someone. She strangled, stabbed and slit Elizabeth Olten’s throat and then hid her body in a wooded area close to both of their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123051</link>
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		<title>An Interview With Author Trace Hacquard About Deadlines And Commitments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trace Hacquard has just published a fabulous book, in it he poses the question is rock dead?
As a music reviewer this is indeed a question that I ask myself frequently. While I do not think it is dead, I certainly think it is seriously wounded. Sure, many of the classic bands from the 70&#8217;s and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123050</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: An Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lone Scherfig’s skilfully directed film of Lynn Barber’s poignant memoir of growing up in England in the 1960s contains some outstanding performances in the main roles.  In particular Carey Mulligan is utterly convincing as the sixteen-year-old Jenny despite the fact that the actress was herself 23 when the movie was made. For a mature young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123049</link>
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		<title>Hackers Indicted for Jacking Comcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano identity theft expert
One hacked email address led to the defacement of Comcasts homepage. When the hackers called Comcasts technical contact to let him know all 200 Comcast domain names and Comcast homepage were vulnerable, he hung up on them.
It has not been disclosed how the email was compromised, but there are many ways [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123048</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;We&#8221; Factor: when Journalists Assume They are Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time magazine has an article about overprotective parents. The Title is appropriate:
 The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
Fair enough.
My problem is how the article is framed:
&#8230;we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought macrobiotic cupcakes and hypoallergenic socks, hired tutors to correct a 5-year-old&#8217;s &#8220;pencil-holding deficiency,&#8221; &#8230; We hovered over every school, playground [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123047</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Gentiles:  A History of Sri Lanka 1498 - 1833 by Agnes Padmini Thambynayagam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing I enjoy more than reading a book that is described by the publisher and critics as “controversial” or “provocative.”  “The Gentiles, A History of Sri Lanka 1498-1833,” a carefully researched and well written book by Agnes Padmini Thambynayagam is such a book.  As you may have guess by her name, Ms. Thambynayagam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123042</link>
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		<title>Caylee Anthony’s Mom’s Defense Team Say Roy Kronk Is Killer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In July 2008 we all remember the infamous 911 call in Orlando made from Cindy Anthony reporting the disappearance of her then 2 year old granddaughter, Caylee Anthony.
Now the stranger part of this call is the fact that the child had been missing for 31 days and the mother claimed the baby’s “Nanny” took the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123046</link>
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		<title>Chairmen for 2010 Asbestos Conference Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An announcement has recently been made to confirm who will be chairing an up and coming important asbestos conference that will be held next year in California. The conference will take place in March of next year at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey.
The announcement about who would be chairing this annual conference was made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/122977</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – Sunday Nov/22 3pm Central</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will be running our regular call in radio program about Haleigh Cummings on Sunday at 3pm central. The panel looks like it will be full strength this week, Simon and Jan Barrett, ace reporter for WSKY 97.3 TJ Hart, investigator William Cobra Staubs, investigative journalist Levi Page, and Crime writer Denny Griffin.
It was an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123045</link>
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		<title>Movie Review: Scrubs – The Complete Eighth Season – Blu-ray Disc</title>
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I have heard that they are going to be making a ninth season of this show, but that it will be about Zach Braff as Dr. John Dorian.  Now, I don’t know if that is true or not, but I can only hope that it will in fact not be true.  The entire cast is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123043</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings - Have You Seen Her?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing and reporting on missing children is not an easy thing to do if you are a parent or someone who deeply cares about children. You tend to take it personal and start to feel like the child is like your own or a close relative that you love.
In February we heard about little 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123041</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Where Do We Go From Here by Patricia Bonelli</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy biographies, not of the rich and famous, those books tend to be adventures in self glorification written by a hired gun ghostwriter. No, I am talking about books about real people with real and compelling life stories. Where Do We Go From Here is just such a book. Patricia Bonelli has written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123040</link>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for Nov. 20, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chloe snuggles up to chance once again and when she apparently hurts him she apologizes. She tells him she thinks maybe he should take Katherine up on her offer to him for a job at Chancellor Industries saying it is a lot safer sitting behind a desk where the worse he can get would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123038</link>
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		<title>Climate Research Unit Hacked - Sensitive Documents Dumped to Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And it ain&#8217;t a happy day for the CRU.&#160; True, this is a cybercrime, and the perpetrator(s) should be brought to justice.&#160; But equally as big is the contents of the &#62;1000 e-mails and &#62;3800 documents.&#160; 
The Hadley Climate Research Unit has confirmed the hack, so this is not a hoax, and global-warming-skeptic sites like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123036</link>
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		<title>Planet 51 - Movie Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Planet 51 fills up the space nicely.”
_ PLANET 51_
Title: PLANET 51
PLANET 51. The name alone takes a stab at Sci-Fi myths and legends. Area 51 has long been thought to house beings and spacecrafts from other worlds. So it only fitting that if you are going to make a film about an alien planet being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123035</link>
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		<title>The Blind Side - Movie Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The Blind Side is a must see.”
_ The Blind Side _
Title: The Blind Side
I like a good underdog story. Remember the Titans or Erin Brockovich. What I don’t like is manipulation; those films that try and play your heart strings with scene after scene of emotional drivel in order to cover up for a lack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123034</link>
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		<title>Twilight Saga: New Moon - Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“New Moon, same story.”
The Twilight saga continues with the second film, New Moon. This generates two very different reactions. One being high pitched screams and over exuberant elation the other being a casual, “eh, so what”. Meaning that fans of the best selling teen geared novels are so ready to see Edward and Bella back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123033</link>
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		<title>Mother of Youngest British Mesothelioma Victim looks for Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mother of the youngest victim of mesothelioma in the UK has said that she will fight to learn the truth about how and why her daughter contracted the asbestos  cancer that killed her, and has promised that she will do it alone of necessary because her lawyers have given up on the case.
Leigh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/122968</link>
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		<title>Handwritten Signature is Stupid Authorization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Ever forge your husbands signature? Wife’s? Parents? Clients? Do you think the clerk behind the counter at Walmart is skilled in handwriting analysis? I’ve always viewed a signature as a totally ridiculous form of authentication and a total waste of my time when I sign my name. It’s always been burden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123032</link>
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		<title>Mammography Guidelines are a Preview of Cost Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was working as a physician in the US, our Federal clinic&#8217;s policy was to order mammograms on all women starting at age 4o.
Why was this important? Because there is some indications that mammogram and early diagnosis increases the cure rate for breast cancer in young women.
This statement is not as obvious as you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123031</link>
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		<title>Mobile Calls from Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A TV Channel in Bangalore ( TV9 ) reported today that mobile calls were being received from Paksitan to mobile users in Delhi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Mumbai etc allegedly from either terrorists or terror funding organizations. The channel gave out four distinct numbers with the ISD code 092 and stated that some of the calls were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123030</link>
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		<title>Cleaning house at the BBG; former CNN CEO to manage U.S. international news programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ FreeMediaOnline.org,  Free Media Online Blog, November 18, 2009, San Francisco &#8212; One of the worst managed U.S. federal agencies will have a new leadership. President Obama has announced his intention to nominate former CNN chairman and CEO Walter Isaacson, a Democrat, to chair the Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG, an independent federal agency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123029</link>
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		<title>Brother of Haleigh Cummings Former Stepmom Arrested, Battery-No Bond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart - I guess he and I are on the same page on this one - Simon
Tommy Croslin, the brother of the woman who is the last person to seeing missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings of Satsuma, FL is once again behind bars in Putnam County. Croslin was arrested Thursday on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123027</link>
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		<title>Tommy Croslin – The Police Report Is Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier article that I published today we broke the news that Tommy Croslin was once again behind bars. There was little information other than that he was being held on No Bond and the charge was battery. Tommy Croslin is the brother of Misty Croslin, the ex-stepmom of Haleigh Cummings.
I must confess that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123026</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Deadlines And Commitments by Trace Hacquard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trace Hacquard poses a question that is near and dear to my heart, is the music genre of Rock dead, are there any bands of today that will be inspiring the next generation, are there bands today that will still be played 20, 30, even 40 years from now?
As a music reviewer I ask the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123025</link>
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		<title>Reporter&#8217;s Notes: &#8220;A Bloggy Mess&#8221; in the Haleigh Cummings Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart of WSKY 97.3 - Simon
Ever since 97.3 The Sky and Bloggernews.net first published the public records regarding the dismissed bar complaint against a former attorney involved in the missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings dealings that was filed by the missing child&#8217;s mother on www.thesky973.com, a virtual storm of emailed claims, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123024</link>
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		<title>Tommy Croslin – In The Slammer Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haleigh Cummings ex stepmoms brother has once again found himself behind bars. This is the second time this month that Tommy Croslin has been a guest of the PCSO. The charge this time is battery. This is a misdemeanor charge, yet he appears to be be held with no bond. This is an unusual situation.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123023</link>
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		<title>Property Owner to be Cited over Improper Asbestos Removal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The owner of a New York building is to be cited as a result of improper removal of asbestos in the building, with a tip off resulting in authorities not only investigating the allegations but also catching the building owner and his workers in the act of improperly disposing of the asbestos.
There are very strict [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/122970</link>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for Nov: 19, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billy tells Chloe she shouldn’t flatter herself because the only woman he is interested in is Mac. Chloe gets a text message to come back to the Chancellor Mansion saying there is a problem there concerning Phillip. As she runs out the door Billy follows telling her to wait for him.
Lauren tells Michael she knows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123022</link>
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		<title>&#34;Adult Stem Cells Saved My Life&#34;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of a new campaign by the Family Research Council, trying to get the word out on how so many diseases and conditions (&#62;70) are already being treated successfully with adult stem cells.
Currently the most common and effective treatments using stem cells are various forms of cancers and anemias, he said, though adult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123020</link>
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		<title>Verdict Against Georgia Pacific upheld by Appeals Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Appeals Court is said to have upheld a multi million dollar verdict against Georgia Pacific in the case of a woman who was exposed to asbestos and went on to develop asbestos  cancer from her home remodelling business.
The original trial saw the jury award Joan Mahoney over six million dollars back in 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring PC Terrorists in the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick. Name the most dangerous terrorist organization in the US, organizations that are responsible for  47 of the53 most destructive terrorist attacks in the US.
Muslims? No.
Right wing Militias? No.
The Christian fundamentalist types? No.
It&#8217;s the Animal rights extremists.
Via SecondhandsmokeBlog, quoting from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision U.S. v Christianson:
&#8230; between 2000 and 2005, 43 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123019</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings – More Fallout From The Kim Picazio Documents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more I look at the file that was released  concerning the dismissal of the bar complaint that Crystal Sheffield and Marie Griffis brought against attorney Kim Picazio the more interesting I find it. I see specks of gold everywhere.
One aspect that comes over loud and clear is Kim Picazio&#8217;s views on Marie Griffis. Clearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123018</link>
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		<title>Deer Issue Catches Liberalism In Headlights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early in American history, one was pretty much free to do as one saw fit on one&#8217;s property so long as it was moral especially if one lived in a rural area where one&#8217;s actions were not likely to encroach upon the sensibilities of one&#8217;s neighbors.  However, now it seems the landholdings of the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Charged with Issuing Asbestos Certifications without Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man from California has been charged with providing asbestos removal workers with certification without actually providing them with the proper training. The man has been accused of trying to defraud employers as a result of his practices.
The man, Rogelio Lowe from E&#38;D Environmental Safety Training Inc, is said to have been providing workers with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/122973</link>
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		<title>Book Review: For Faithful Friends by Marilyn E. Randall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a soft spot for children&#8217;s books, they are so much more fun to read than a lot of adult books and For Faithful Friends is no exception. It is a book that any young child would derive great pleasure from.
One of the unusual aspects is that Marilyn Randall not only created the text [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123016</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Broderick Curse by David Peretz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I greatly enjoyed David Peretz&#8217;s first foray into the literary world The Mosel Legacy. The Broderick Curse picks up NYPD&#8217;s Ross Cortese three years later. He is now living with the alluring Willi who we met in the first book. They have taken up life as a couple in New York.
The Broderick Curse begins with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salt and Pepper: Religion and Public Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salt and Pepper: Religion and Public Education
The Cheatham County Tennessee School District is being sued by four students who are protesting the District&#8217;s position that allows, and apparently encourages, religious activities in the district&#8217;s schools. According to an article in the Tennessean:
The lawsuit alleges: a planned prayer took place at graduation last spring; the Gideons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Department has to Retract Report Relating to University Violations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent report the Wisconsin State Department of Commerce has had to retract a report that related to serious violations of health and safety, including asbestos violations, at the University of Wisconsin. It will now be looking at and rewriting the report before any further steps are taken.
An official from the Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Vision:  Green Stone Of Healing Series by C. L. Talmadge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Stone Of Healing Series – Book One
Candace Talmadge has four books in print, and I decided to take them in order. Sure, I know that sounds sensible, but what tends to happen is that you pick up the latest book by an author and work backwards, I have no clue how many times I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politicizing STD&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CDC announced an increase in STD&#8217;s and an administration spokesman insisted that it&#8217;s all Bush&#8217;s fault, because some schools preach abstinence:
&#8220;Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after almost being eliminated,&#8221; said John Douglas, director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;The Silent Hour: A Lincoln Perry Mystery&#8221; by Michael Kortya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The Silent Hour: A Lincoln Perry Mystery” opens with Private Investigator Lincoln Perry working solo while his partner Joe Pritchard mends in Florida. Perry is receiving letters from Parker Harrison, convicted murder, who is seeking his help. When the letter campaign doesn’t work, Harrison comes in person. Simplifying greatly, Harrison wants Perry to find the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123011</link>
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		<title>Sirolimus can help with Mesothelioma Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to researchers working at a Boston women&#8217;s hospital an immunosuppressant drug called Sirolimus can help with mesothelioma treatment. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is linked to long term or high level exposure to asbestos, which is a known and potentially deadly carcinogenic that was once widely used in a range of applications.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for Nov. 17, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lauren jokes around about the rat someone sent to her as a gift. Nick comes in with a check for the Bardwell’s. He says it is good will and good PR. While inside Gloria says she can’t wait to shed her apron for good there. She sees Nick out on the patio and says that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123009</link>
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		<title>Thank You, Facebook!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday kicked off Anti-bullying Week and it goes from November 16-20 2009. One thing that is really being focused upon is the problem of cyber-bullying. As we all know, this is a problem that is out of control and at some point, someone needs to put a stop to it. The problem is a huge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123008</link>
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		<title>There is nothing up my sleeve &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many government programs depend on political legerdemain and budget gimmickry.  Social Security and Medicare are prominent examples.  Most Americans believe Social Security and Medicare funds are locked in a vault somewhere, ready for withdrawals when they retire.  We are disquieted to learn these “Trust Funds”, as they are called, are not funds at all, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123007</link>
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		<title>Mesothelioma Rates Keep Rising in England&#8217;s West Midlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report has shown that the number of mesothelioma victims is continuing to rise in the West Midlands area of England. Home to the Black Country, which was know for its rich industrial history, as well as many other industrial areas, this is a region where malignant mesothelioma is said to be rife.
Reports were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestos Victim wins Twenty Million over Secondary Exposure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An asbestos victim who has contracted the asbestos  cancer mesothelioma has won a massive twenty million dollars after contracting the disease through exposure to asbestos on a secondary basis. The woman, and nursing professor, is thought to have been exposed to asbestos through washing clothing.
It is claimed that she used to wash her grandfather&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Sheffield: Mother Of Missing Haleigh Cummings And Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you start to poke around in the Haleigh Cummings story there is one re-occurring theme, drugs. Drugs are everywhere you look. It does not seem to matter if you talk Croslin, Cummings, or Sheffield, at some point the use of illicit drugs enters the picture. It has been widely reported that babysitter/lover/wife/divorcee teenage Misty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123006</link>
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		<title>5 Year Old Shaniya Davis - Body Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I really hate my job. I feel so helpless when I read about all the missing children and I somehow find my heart getting so close to some of them just from following their cases. It gives me great pleasure when I read one that I have written about is found unharmed, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings – BNN Radio Sunday Nov/15 – Wrap Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I was right, it was an interesting 90 minutes. Not without it&#8217;s technical challenges, but what would a live program be without some challenges?
I was very happy that country band &#8216;front man&#8217; Sam Watkins decided to take part. Sam Watkins was the person that put on the benefit concert for Haleigh Cummings in Austin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Picazio: Haleigh Cummings Case Lawyer – Bar Complaint File Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this morning the entire file of the Bar complaint filed against Kim Picazio by Crystal Sheffield and her mother Marie Griffis was released. We are still pouring over the documents, but to say the least they make for some interesting reading.
Much of what was speculated about on the radio program yesterday is contained in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for Nov. 16, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chance and Chloe quietly enter the Chancellor Mansion. He tells Chloe she doesn’t have to worry, the doctor released him and even signed the release form. He says he just didn’t want the women folk to fuss over him and he says as he looks at Chloe well except for one certain woman that is.
Cane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Industry Takes Steps To Improve Bad Behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Physician, heal thyself!”
      &#8211;Luke 4:23
Now that healthcare employers take disruptive workplace behavior seriously, and a major survey has indicated that physicians cause the majority of it, what are they doing to change the situation?
According to Dr. Barry Silbaugh, CEO of the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE), one effective method is based on the engineering concept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politically Correct Speak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Politically correct speech, like so many societal trends, has reached an extreme level.
According to Wikipedia, politically correct speech began innocuously in the 1793 Supreme Court decision of Chisholm v Georgia regarding an inaccurate statement.
During World War I, Arnold Bennett, a British Ministry Officer, used the expression regarding appropriateness.
Since WW I, there has been a steady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syfy’s Sanctuary Gives Children a Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress Amanda Tapping (left) and TV writer and producer Damian Kindler have launched a new not-for-profit foundation to help disadvantaged children. The foundation is linked to the  television series Sanctuary, which airs on Syfy in the United States. Tapping stars in the series and is an executive producer with Kindler. They have launched the foundation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study into Libby Asbestos Effects to be Performed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study is to be performed into the effects that vermiculite mining has had on the health of residents and their offspring in the town of Libby in Montana. This is where the W R Grace vermiculite mine was located, and the town has a high rate of asbestos cancer.
An announcement was made by researches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Budget Cuts = Job Cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than half our states are being forced to slash their budgets in light of tax losses with the recession:

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&#38;id=711
Needless to say such budget cuts will mean the loss of jobs in nearly every area from medicine and teaching to repairing our crumbling infrastructures (bridges, roads, etc.). I see far too few people drawing this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Mules Facilitate Identity Theft and Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Mules are relatively unaware people who get hooked into a &#8220;small business&#8221; or employment that is a function of a criminal enterprise. The mules often respond to “help wanted” ads from online job placement sites. Shipping scams are a common tactic criminals use in which they employ mules to receive goods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would the Mullahs approve of Birth Control? Many of them have&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the frustrating things when working in child maternal health in poor countries is trying to integrate medical aims into the cultural background of the people, without destroying it.
This NYTimes story, about trying to get the Mullahs in Afghanistan to approve of their people using birth control, is a good example of how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shell radioactive role in al-Yamamah corruption scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YJPdBHbP4
The above YouTube video tells the horrific story of Ray Fox, the man who claims he and his family were contaminated by illegal unauthorized toxic outflow from a Shell terminal in Earley, near Reading in the UK.  At one stage, Ray was treated by a specialist in Germany for radioactive poisoning. 
Almost a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Cyber Café Owners-ITA 2008 Compliance Blanket for Cyber Cafes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The terror mail threat received by the Sri Lankan Cricket team before the Ahmedabad Test has once again brought focus on the Cyber Cafes. The mail was sent from a Cyber Café in Chattisgarh and promptly the Police have arrested the Cyber Café owner. For records, Police are happy that an arrest has been made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Frustration, Shouting, Bullying and Spanking Your Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article by Hillary Stout in the New York Times, “For Some Parents, Shouting is the New Spanking,” focuses on the damage to children done by parents’ shouting and, therefore, the need for parents to control their tempers.
Although I agree that a steady diet of shouting and bullying isn’t a good way for well-meaning, devoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my teaching career &#8212; 1963-2007 &#8212; I have watched the roles of women change radically. From &#8220;barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen&#8221; mixed with low level jobs (secretaries and such), I have seen my students and others move on into the professions, academic fields from which they were virtually banned, and a host of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings – BNN Radio Program Sunday 3pm Central</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will be running our regular Sunday exploration into the very strange case of Haleigh Cummings. I am sure that in certain circles our interest in this case is most unwelcome. Clearly someone knows something, yet the Investigators are coming up blank at the moment. We hope that in some small way we can change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing &#8212; Here, There, and Elsewhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Vietnam war we would boast almost daily of the numbers of enemies we had killed &#8212; quite often vague and exaggerated figures.
Now with particularly Afghanistan our reports of enemies killed are generally sotto voce. As often as not our &#8216;enemies&#8217; have turned out to be a wedding party or some such hit by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wasn&#8217;t the Bad Man a Soldier?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in a housing village on Fort Hood.  On November 4th, at approximately 1:30 PM, the emergency alarms went off.  I was expecting to hear that this was a test of the “Emergency Alert System.”  Instead, I heard, “Attention.  Seek shelter immediately.  Close all doors and windows.  Turn off all ventilation systems.  Seek shelter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Review: I&#8217;m Glad There Is You, Corky Hale&#8230; and Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The description of the performers included on the jazzy album I&#8217;m Glad There Is You reads something like the program for an off-Broadway musical revue. There&#8217;s an Academy Award nominee and the daughter of an Academy Award nominee, among others, along with extensive lists of previous accomplishments (musical and otherwise) for each artist. The leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is BAI Banking Strategies Magazine Running a Scam?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freelance writers should be wary of BAI Banking Strategies magazine.  The magazine&#8217;s ad at WritersWeekly.com, which asks for freelance submissions, states &#8220;This is a rather esoteric field, so you have to have a certain amount of expertise to give our stories the sophisticated polish we require.&#8221;  
Editor Kenneth Cline asks contributors to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin vanquishing 2012 GOP rivals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PS Burton Blogging from Phoenix&#8211; I have been critical of her from day one, to the point of being tasteless, which is why my observation that Sarah Palin could if she desires, become the walk away choice for the republican nomination is pretty much a spot on prognostication.
The pollsters who work for the establishment keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Continues for 8 Month Old Son of Slain Mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early Friday morning the gruesome discovery of 23 year old Zoelina Williams’s body was found in Berkeley California’s Aquatic Park. She was found about 4 am after she had been beaten and then shot to death.
It is believed that at the time of her slaying she had her 8 month old baby, Jashon Williams with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amber Alert Issued - Anthony Holland - Missing from Ohio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Amber Alert has been issued for an 8 month old little boy named Anthony Holland. He is believed to be with a man named Anthony Reid who is 22 years old.
The child is a black male, and is only about 2 ft. 4 in tall. He only weighs about 20 lbs. and has brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie Prejean facing criminal charges in sex tape scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogging from Phoenix &#8212; Seems the dethroned Miss California and self promoting role model for conservative family values was evidently the Queen of cell phone porn, with as many as eight sex tapes and some 30 naked photos to her credit according to the online site Radar.com.
Carrie reportedly performs solo on each recording and contrary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for Nov. 13, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billy makes it very clear to Cane that his girlfriend will not be carrying Cane’s baby. He says Lily will have to find another incubator. Mac walks Cane to the door telling him she will handle this and when he leaves she tells Billy he has completely crossed the line this time.
Paul talks with Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its About Taking Pride In Your Life, Americans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often come up with what I plan to write on during my morning run. For some reason, ideas seem to bounce into my brain housing group (military term) as I am punishing myself physically. Today, I decided to put politics in the background; somewhat, and talk about life in general. Don&#8217;t worry, I promise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Launch of Cancer Diagnostic Tests Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A company has recently announced the national launch of a number of diagnostic cancer tests, which should help to identify different types of cancer, which would subsequently make it easier for more appropriate and effective treatment to be given to patients and for a faster diagnosis to be made.
The announcement was made by Prometheus Laboratories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – Kim Picazio -  An Interesting 180</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was announced today that the attorney who represented Crystal Sheffield for several months, Kim Picazio has been cleared of all wrong doing by the Florida Bar Association. A complaint concerning Picazio had been filed on behalf of her ex-client Cyrstal Sheffield. A complete version of the letter can be found here.
There is one part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Update: Bar Complaint Against Former Lawyer Picazio Filed By Crystal Sheffield Dismissed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart - Simon
The often vilified former pro-bono attorney for the biological mother of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings who was abducted from her Satsuma, FL home in February is walking away this week with some sense of vindication.
The Florida Bar Association has dismissed the complaints against attorney Kim Picazio alleged by Crystal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Khalid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is being promoted to, what amounts to, full citizen of the United States of America for purposes of standing trial, in civilian court, for his war crimes.&#160; He&#8217;ll get all the rights and privileges afforded citizens, and even just residents living under the laws of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 - Movie Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;2012 is a recipe for disaster&#8221;
Writer/director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 10,000 BC, The Day After Tomorrow)is back with what is easily his most visual, action backed, destructive movie to date. Calamity films in the past have focused on certain regions of our Earth or the suspenseful buildup of possible doom from meteors or aliens. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clerk Claims Unfair Dismissal over Asbestos Warning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A former senior court clerk from New York has claimed that she was unfairly dismissed from her job because she warned people about asbestos in the workplace and spoke out about safety at work. Shelly Warner-Levison was a senior court clerk in Potsdam, New York.
She spoke out about asbestos as Potsdam Civic Center following the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan?????</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frankly, I find myself totally conflicted over Afghanistan. On the one hand I feel that we owe them much, having promised (falsely) that we would after our invasion help them reconstruct their ravaged country and finances &#8212; which we then diverted from with the Iraq invasion. On the other hand I see no way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Phish Identity Theft Scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
I&#8217;m getting &#8220;Direct Messages&#8221; to my email inbox, from &#8220;followers&#8221; who are sending me a Phish. I&#8217;m sure their accounts have been hacked which is why the messages are coming from them.
The messages says &#8220;ROFL this you? www.shorturl..&#8221;

The short url takes you to a login in page looking like Twitters login [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somer/Haleigh: The Peanut Gallery Is At It Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received this op-ed piece from TJ Hart. I think he sums up the situation quite well - Simon
I just had to break up another stupid fight on my Twitter site today.
Once again, some in the blogosphere have appointed themselves God and are passing out their judgment on the parents of killed or missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The debate on valuation of Chinese Yuan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global economics is a dynamic subject, unfortunately without any reference. 
The only reference one has is the market. The reference system of something tangible was closed down with the closing of the Bretton Woods system when the gold window was closed by the Nixon-administration (Nixon-Shock) back in 1971, unilaterally. 
Back then every other currency was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Techno Legal Behavioural Science Approach to Information Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Information Security (IS) concept has  been under a continuous evolvement. Initially, IS was a technical concept as creators of software and computer systems struggled to make the system more trustworthy. The fundamental requirement for this purpose was to let the systems be accessed and operated only by authorized persons. Hence Access control was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Cynical Photo op at Arlington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were over 1000 articles on Google news about the President&#8217;s visit to Arlington Cemetery on Veteran&#8217;s day this year.
No problem. Such ceremonies are part of the job, after all.
But then, according to ABC news:
his car came to an unexpected stop by the gravesites of casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan. The president and Mrs. Obama  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Wrong With The Web – SEO And Search Gone Wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the Internet, it is a wonderful reporitory of information, if you know where to look, it is also a huge vast black hole of useless data designed to make a quick buck. An entire industry has cropped up that is out to &#8216;game&#8217; the search engines. The favorite of which is Google. Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organization in Australia Slated over Asbestos Investigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A company in Australia has been slated after it was claimed that it failed to carry out inspections properly at a hospital in East Melbourne, where asbestos contamination had been caused by men that had sawed though asbestos containing concrete.
The incident occurred at the Mercy Hospital site in East Melbourne, and following the incident work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for Nov. 12, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billy goes to the Chancellor Estate to see Delia but is told she is sleeping and that Chloe is at the hospital with Chance. He asks her how Chance is doing and they agree he is a lucky guy. Billy complains to Katherine about Cane being back with Lily and in the family. He wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Deadly Codes – A Gallagher Novel by JP O&#8217;Donnell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I do have a soft spot for the &#8216;Gumshoe&#8217; novel. They are generally a fast, action packed adventure into the unlikely! The traditional PI in novels is almost always a slightly seedy character, one that you would avoid talking to at a party, and certainly would not want your daughter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie Walk Helps Raise Cash for Cancer Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual Zombie Walk held in Richmond, Virginia, has once again helped to raise money for the American Cancer Society. The Zombie Walk took place just before Halloween this year, with participants dressed up as all sorts of zombies, from police officer zombies to Girl Scout zombies.
The Richmond Zombie Walk was fist organized in 2006 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compulsive Cyber Offence Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider this case:
A well educated software professional working in Infosys is travelling in train from his native place to Delhi. He has to catch a flight to Bangalore. The train is getting delayed. He feels that he may miss his flight. Now, what does he do?
Sit quitely and resign to the fact that he may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your Bottled Water affecting your love life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study among Chinese factory workers shows exposure to high doses of Bisphenol A at their jobs resulted in an increase of erectile dysfuntion.
Compared to the other workers, men with high BPA exposure were about four times as likely to report trouble achieving erections, about seven times as likely to say they had difficulty ejaculating, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adji Desir - Missing Child To Be Featured On Cover of People’s Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying my best to keep as many of the missing children in the news as I possibly can so you can imagine how happy I was to see one the children I keep naming will be added on the front cover of the popular People’s Magazine along with five other missing children.
Adji [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Author Sheldon Greene About Prodigal Sons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed Prodigal Sons a great deal, I think that likely comes out in my review of it. I am a student of history, particularly the cold war era. Prodigal Sons is set in 1950, in Germany, and pits the newly formed Israel against the remnants of the Nazi organization.
After I had read the book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaniya Nicole Davis Missing From Fayetteville - Foul Play Expected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again another child has come up missing. Little 5-year old Shaniya Nicole Davis from Fayetteville North Carolina was last seen from her home Tuesday morning and an Amber Alert has been issued for her.
Shaniya’s mother reported to the police who arrived at the Sleepy Hollow Drive home around 6:50 that morning that it was [...]]]></description>
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